Start using the PHP examples straight away
I decided I wanted to add PHP to my website to make it more dynamic and reduce maintenance. But I didn't know any PHP. So I picked up PHP Solutions and within an hour or two of opening the front cover, I had converted my website to PHP and added several dynamic features that were demonstrated in the book!
This book is brilliant. It provides a good background and understanding of PHP and the examples are easy to follow and apply straight away. It also shows you how to keep your code safe and avoid ugly error messages.
Hard To Follow But Very Useful
This is my first book on learning PHP, so maybe that's why it was difficult for me, but I would often give up on something, then search the web or other books for a tutorial, only to find that the answers were in this book all along.
I wanted to create an image gallery using php, and found a halfway decent tutorial on the net, but didn't realize that this book actually covers image galleries.
Some nice tutorials in this book revolve around,
- blogs
- event lists
- user registrations
- file uploads
- image galleries
- and a bunch of other stuff.
If your learning PHP this is a good book to buy, even if you don't understand everything, you can bounce around to different books or online tutorials, then refer back to this book and maybe it'll make more sense.
PHP Solutions Review
Good stuff. I have had to keep staring at PHP code long enough to absorb where to start. This book gives you a good amount of "enough" to write a decent program. Would recommend..........
Just what i needed
I wish more of the books I have seen on programming were written like this one. The author presents a practical application of what can be done with PHP in each chapter and these are things that are likely going to be needed in the majority of PHP websites. He also explains step by step how to install and set up Apache, MySQL and PHP. A great way to learn PHP.
Finally, a Great PHP Book
I've had a crack at PHP 3 times now. The 1st time my confidence was shattered. But I now know that the code in that book was riddled with errors. By the 2nd time, I knew how to write code (other languages), and was able to identify that the 2nd book which I tried had code that was also riddled with errors. But this 3rd time has been a resounding success, thanks to Mr Powers.
Great explanations, great examples, great code. By the end of this book, you will have the foundation in PHP to go on and create some great PHP apps. And thanks again for the minimal errata and the downloadable code that actually works.
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